#susiedent — Public Fediverse posts
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A one-hour interview with Susie Dent? Yes please!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMrY4dlMRoE
I just love her. She's such a knowledgeable and kind and funny person, and such a language nerd <3
Also, I had no idea that she speaks German (very well, I might add). Her favorite German word being "strapaziert" is such a mood 😂
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A look at "Secret Genius" on Channel 4, the show that appeared to be about puzzles and the way the brain works, but was actually about how society consistently cannot cope with people who think in an unusual way.
Fediverse, you'll love it! And it's got Susie Dent! (And it's got Alan Carr, but he's kept on a reasonable leash.)
https://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver's_Week_2026-03-08
#GameShows #WeaversWeek #SecretGenius #AlanCarr #SusieDent #Mensa
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We're letting the minds of our youth be shaped by the products produced by men who want to fuck them for the kudos among their equally depraved cohorts.
Imagine if parents had the time to be with their kids, and raise them, instead of having to all go to work for a few coins from the Epstein Class.
#SusieDent #Childcare #Education #Vocabulary #TechBros #technology #Learning #Parenting
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NICOLA METHVEN: 'Give me Secret Genius over The Apprentice or Love Island any day of the week'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/nicola-methven-give-secret-genius-36643737
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Alan Carr: ‘Susie Dent intimidated me – but she has a naughty sense of humour’
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CW: Guilty By Defintion, mild spoilers
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捧杀 pěngshā: to kill with praise, and developments/expansions on this.
https:// chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/54129/how-to-translate-%E6%8D%A7%E6%9D%80Listening to Guilty By Definition, a book by Susie Dent.
Enjoying it. Not high literature. Wondering about dynamics in Dent's family of origin.One rare word that gets defined is Sardonion: 17th c. noun A person who flatters with lethal intent.
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Apparently it caused such a ruckus at the Hay Literary Festival that there were 4 fatalities and 700 hundred arrests.
Richard Dawkins made a faecal protest on somebodies' car during the hullabaloo, just hopped up on the vehicle, dropped his pants and then his load...
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fine-mispronounce-mischievous-now-says-111213564.html
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Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.
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Susie Dent's word of the day: recrudescence.
#SusieDent #Language #WordOfTheDay #us #us2024 #election2024 #election
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#SusieDent #Wordoftheday is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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#SusieDent #Etymology of the day is 'on tenterhooks' (not 'tenderhooks'): tenters, once a common sight, are wooden frames on which freshly milled cloth is stretched so that it dries without shrinking. To be on tenterhooks is to be as tense and taut as the cloth itself.
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#WordoftheDay, again, is 'malversation' (16th century): corrupt or fraudulent behaviour by someone in a position of power.
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#SusieDent I really like the Norwegian word ‘gruglede’. It means, essentially, to be excited about something whilst dreading it at the same time. #words
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Word of the day is to ‘constult’ (17th century): to act stupidly together. -
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"As part of my regular series on lost positives, I’m happy to report that you can be ‘consolate’ as well as ‘disconsolate’. If you’re lucky, you can also be gruntled, feckful, woeless, and in a state of total array." -
#SusieDent - apposite as ever - "Candidate' comes from the Latin 'candidus', meaning 'white'. Roman political hopefuls would don togas whitened with chalk to imply integrity and purity of purpose."
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Word of the day is ‘bang-a-bonk’ (19th century): to sit lazily on a river bank and forget the world for a while.
(I'm saying nothing)
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From #SusieDent #Words
A pretty etymology to kick off the day: the 'daisy' takes its name from the Old English 'dæges ēage', 'day's eye', because the flower opens its petals at dawn and slowly closes its 'eye' again at dusk. -
More enlightenment from #SusieDent #words The terms ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ date from the French Revolution and the seating plans of the French National Assembly. The anti-royalist revolutionaries took seats to the presiding officer’s left, while the aristocratic/more conservative supporters of the king gathered to the right.
